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Success At Work Series
Contributed by Herbert Cooper on Jun 19, 2013 (message contributor)
Summary: How to have success at work: have purpose, integrity, self-development, intensity, and resolve.
1. Work with a purpose
Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the Lord, then it will succeed. (TLB)
Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty. (NIV)
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (NIV)
Acts 13:36 "For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his fathers and his body decayed.” (NIV)
Luke 2:49 And He said to them, "Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?" (NKJV)
2. Work with integrity
Proverbs 10:9 The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out. (NIV)
Proverbs 16:11 The Lord demands fairness in every business deal. He established this principle. (TLB)
Proverbs 12:3 Wickedness never brings real success; only the godly have that. (TLB)
3. Work with intensity
Proverbs 14:23 All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty. (NIV)
Proverbs 13:4 Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper. (NLT)
4. Work on developing yourself
Proverbs 15:14 A wise person is hungry for knowledge, while the fool feeds on trash. (NLT)
Proverbs 18:15 Intelligent people are always ready to learn. Their ears are open for knowledge. (NLT)
Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success. (NIV)
5. Work with resolve
Proverbs 24:16 For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. (NIV)
